The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.
BOBBY KNIGHTSon, my name isn’t Knight to you, it’s coach Knight or it’s Mr. Knight. I don’t call people by their last name and neither should you.
More Bobby Knight Quotes
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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
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Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
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I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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Everybody hears, but few listen.
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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
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We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
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It is better to anticipate than to react.
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There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren’t a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, ‘He’s saying God screwed the pitcher.
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I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
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I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
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Pat has been instrumental in what we’ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we’ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that’s Pat.
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